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BUILDING WALDO

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Welcome to the Building Waldo blog site!


We are a group of third-year students from the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London tasked with creating an AI device (called Waldo) in partnership with IBM to help people with communication challenges by translating sign language patterns into spoken word. This blog site is a platform for us to showcase the process of building waldo. So stay tuned for weekly blog posts! 

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The Final Stretch

This past week was all about fine tuning and fitting all the components into Waldo. The objective is to ensure that all of Waldo’s...

Blog post 4: The First Fruits of Labour

With demo day fast approaching on the 13th of June, the team has once again been hard at work this week. This hard work certainly paid...

Blog post 3: The Tough Get Going

This past week was a challenging one to say the least- not only due to the heavy work load and limited time but also probably made worse...

Blog post 2: Getting Stuck In

The main aims of this past week were to improve upon the machine learning network for sign language recognition and at the same time to...

Blog post 1: Early Beginnings

This is the first blog post from Waldo, an academic project with IBM that aims to help carers in care homes understand Makaton. Makaton...

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